20.500.12556/RUL-174670 Right place, right behaviour deathscapes as a moral space in the context of alternative spirituality in Slovakia The paper addresses spiritual ideas and practices associated with the dead in the urban environment in Slovakia, a country with a predominantly Christian population, in relation to the transformation of cultural and religious worldviews which took place there in the 1990s. I consider how individuals who experienced the change of the political regime as adults and adopted new spiritual ideas reflect on the transformation of their worldviews, in particular in relation to the dead. I focus on the role of the space where the living and the dead act and communicate. In interpreting their accounts, I employ Mary Douglas’ ideas about cosmology as a moral order, combining them with the approach to the study of human cognition known as distributed cognition. I also use the term deathscape, understood as the material expression in the landscape of practices relating to death. I argue that my interlocutors’ experiences with the dead reflect their individualities as well as their specific life trajectories, but despite their diversities, they all share a moral dimension manifested through spatiality. In this, the idea of the universal energy characteristic of alternative spiritual currents is essential, as it unites the living and the dead in one community. This allows the reciprocal interaction of the two worlds and produces a feeling of the continual presence of the dead in the lives of the living. Thus, all accounts point to the same idea: the dead are part of society. ethnology folklore alternative spirituality spiritual energy space morality deathscapes fall of communism Slovakia etnologija folkloristika alternativna duhovnost duhovna energija prostor morala krajine smrti padec komunizma Slovaška true false false Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Neznano 2025-10-08 12:25:15 2025-10-08 12:25:27 2025-11-27 03:31:45 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 Str. 115-138 Vol. 96 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2025-01-01 133.9:29(437.6) 1406-0957 10.7592/FEJF2025.96.buzhekova 252287747 Buzekova_Right_place,_right_behaviour.pdf Buzekova_Right_place,_right_behaviour.pdf 1 988AA3C88BC54E8F25D77BF068DF85D3 593a7758be5ffbcc5aaede3b9f8dec9af4e60ab18bc238b6c19c145255b39a1c 27ce1f14-a431-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=219537 https://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol96 1 e0c19da0-a430-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=219531 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0